south korea's musical prodigy ah, one out to 0. ah, al jazeera. where as a use all the supply shortages in africa, surgeon cases in the u. s. asian nation, struggling to cope the fight against the new coven way, based on the way nearly everywhere. ah, in on come all santa maria here in doug with the world news from out of the earth. se asia has been especially hard hit. the number of deaths and infections is soaring across multiple country central. china's was floods in recent years of

provoked anger and scrutiny. about the government's failure to prepare for the dissolved and the controversy and the covert and haven't gone away. but we are now just hours away from the opening ceremony of the delayed tokyo. and so the current of virus pandemic and the rising case numbers across. but it can be the united states that they thought the latest figures showed the 7 day average of new infections has risen. 53 percent in just the past week. nearly all patients. big admitted a hospital for the virus still haven't had their job. and you, as president joe biden has been a urging americans to get vaccinated to try to stop that spreads his. kimberly, how could i? whitehouse corresponding kimberly, i see on my screen. see a gen saki the white house press secretary, giving a daddy briefing, anything coming out of that yet? now the latest, the white house press secretary confirming that there is no change to mass guidance,

but we do know it is something that the white house has been considering with respect to whether or not even vaccinated americans need to donna math. one more time. this is because of the spike in cases due to that delta, very highly transmissible. we know that 83 percent of cases in the united states are now linked to the delta variance. and we know that it's especially bad in 3 keys states. they are florida, texas, and also missouri. now we also know is that when it comes to the vaccinate, it is largely concentrated in areas where their population tends to be rural. and this, they have a lot to do with either conservative viewpoints and skepticism or the fact that people simply don't have access to the vaccine. the white house working hard to change that up and the amount of money being spent in order to help people in rural areas. a $100000000.00 being spent to try and urge people most areas to get back to needed as they are seeing the troubling trend of biking in cases. kimberly,

what about the big picture? you took us through some numbers last hour and there are a lot of them, but they don't great ones of a know the economy has always been linked to the rise in cases in terms of the number of people filing for unemployment. these cause of course, when the cases rise, the business is close in order to slow down the spread. and so what we're seeing is that the number of people filing for jobless claim from the united states has gone well be beyond the average in terms of what was expected and the estimate, i should say 51000 the cases in terms of job with claims filed higher than they had hoped, and that is a troubling trend. now the white house is careful to say, look at, we expect there's going to be some fluctuation. but given the i've taken these delta vary cases, it certainly is a worrying sign. thank you for that. kimberly. how could at the white house this thursday? right, so that's the us now. se asia we're batt,

again highly contagious. delta variant of coven 19 is fueling infections across the region. indonesia is now the epi center reporting more than $1400.00 deaths the highest since the pandemic began at mid day. $35000.00 new infections detected as well, and testing rates are low and the true figures could be much higher. will health organization is urged the government to introduce a strict lockdown. here is jessica washington, with more from chicago. indonesia has now passed more than $3000000.00 cases in total. what we have seen on the positive side is that the government has been able to ramp up testing, and they were able to test 200000 individuals in one day, which is a market improvement. however, it's still way of the target of trying to test 400000 people each day. and you can imagine that in a country like, and these are, there are people who would struggle when there is a strict lockdown and many all doing it tough, particularly across your college or a java and many parts of the country. but epidemiologist say that the government

must strongly because the situation is continuing to worsen intensive care units in hospitals, but only in chicago, not only in java, but across the country are stretched. and we're seeing concerning signs of health care system across the country and more regional provinces, including a west hub for with the, with the health care resources are certainly not what we have here in jakarta. and the numbers that you mentioned earlier is concerning, as they found in the fact that indonesia now is asia covert center. they don't represent the reality on the ground because of low testing rates. some local data agencies using data from cities from provincial governments, say that the actual just told is likely to be greater than one. the government's numbers suggests in thailand has been in again and other reco. dave infections more than 13600 people testing positive in the past day. and they just found enough

vaccine back the nation vaccine instituted apologize for not buying enough and is now promising to join the global kovak. maxine sharing scheme is tony chang with more from bangkok we saw a government ministry coming out over night saying that we're asking celebrities not to criticize the government on social media. he said that their voice is amplified on platforms like twitter and facebook. and they should be very aware of what the public, the information, the public is receiving impact the thai government when to introduced new anti cove . it measures a couple of weeks ago, i slipped in a bill a gave it new powers to limit or so called miss information. in fact, the wording is actually any information which might cause the public to panic regardless of were actually true or false. and we've seen them acting on that today, overnight. a young tie wrapper, criticize the government on social media today, she's being called into the police,

but i think it illustrates how sensitive the government is about it's covered response. there is a growing criticism here of the government of the vaccination problem program about about the number of infections we're seeing, which have risen very quickly in the last couple of months. we even saw a protest is back on the st. last. we can now at the moment, people are very concerned about going out in public, although than all being banned during the daytime, there is a strict curfew at night. most people are trying to stay at home as much as possible at this time last year. tyler was doing remarkably well. daily infections were in double digits for the whole of 2020 the whole total number of code fatalities was just 61. while now. we've blown well past those figures where we saw anti government protests on the street last year. i think the gun was rather saved by the fact that it had responded or was seen to respond very well to the pandemic this year. if those protest thought again,

i think the government is very nervous indeed. elsewhere south africa is also struggling with a 3rd and infections. the vaccination campaign there is making progress. so it was a record, a quarter of a 1000000 people getting their jobs in a single day. but so far, any 7 percent of the population has received even just one dose. south africa is the worst hit country in africa and health experts are warning of a potential rise in cases after those protests that we saw last week. he found me to miller and jams. big says those number of daily vaccinations in south africa has broken a new record. all the south african government had to hope to vaccinate about 300000 . and they've almost reached a target by almost 250000 in the last 24 hours. and that is a record for south africa, especially given they've been concerning the last week or so, given the disruptions around some of the riots that we experienced in the provinces of consumer natal and helping in that vaccination centers were work. they were

suspended at least for a few days, and all the government says everything is back to normal. also, what seems to be driving this particular record is that vaccinations have now opened up to people the to 5 years and older. and it seems based on the trends we're seeing that the younger the individual is the keynote they are to get vaccinated. we did see some reluctance from people over 60 years old. so the government is really pushing for the registration of people over the age of 35. and while it did have a process in place that people would have to make appointments, they receive a text message to confirm that appointment the now accepting walking and ultimately the ministry of health saying it's all about getting people vaccinated as quickly as possible. the numbers continue to be of concern. it has though dropped, of the $27.00. sorry. of the people who are testing 27 percent of them seem to be infected by coven 19. but there seems to be some relief in terms of the 3rd way

that's being experienced in south africa. currently. let's move on to other news. china deploying its military to hand on province. the central region struggling with the worst flooding in recent memory. they 33 people have now been killed, an 800000 displaced, katrina hughes inch and jang in hand on province with a look at the situation there. the rain has used, but millions of people are still struggling to deal with the devastating flooding, which is what many cities and towns dancing. i'm still showing a city on the northern hot non problem and 2 rental res hit this region on wednesday, just off the passing the provincial capital of young jo in the space of just 2 hours. 26 centimeters of rain was dumped in this area. now, many houses, the rural areas in the northern outskirts of this region collapse. as a result of the torrential rain and half a 1000000 people will lose relocated to the areas. now we're just standing the beginning of the highway, which leads to the main area of downtown john. this area has been unable to

rescue workers and teams have been moving to try to clear the area. they're also getting food and people who've been stuck in the cause our authority say $3000000.00 people have been affected by the severe storm and it's close to $100000000.00 worth of economic losses. now as the clean up continues, questions are being raised as to why people living in home. and we're not adequately warned about the severity of the storm before. but the government is choosing instead to focus on rescue. and it's sensory, any criticism of the timing of the disaster online and on social media. which is days after extreme weather brought devastation to parts of europe. and china, ministers from the g. 20 countries are meeting in italy to discuss action on climate change. protest as were on the streets of naples were the talks trying to reach agreements ahead of the cop 26 climate summit. that's in glasgow in november . demonstrate to say the world's richest countries need to make faster and deeper

counts in their emissions and provide more finance for poor countries to adapt. in the news, the head, iran, the president, calls for an end to protest against water shortages as experts. one of the looming environmental catastrophe and the land of cattle and beef will look at why small farmers attorney to vegetables and green agriculture. ah, ah. hello there, let's look to the middle east and levant and up in the north. things are looking a lot settled. it's down in the south, we've seen that cloud bringing the reins particularly heavy it to west in areas of yemen. we could see more flooding here, where that rain does fall, particularly heavily. and it's also affecting areas of amman, muska likely to do some showers and storms as we go towards the end of the week and

the weekend. but up north it is looking a lot finer and dryer. we've got a sion now wind blowing in here, and that's kicking up a lot of dust creating hazy sunshine for q 8 and for katasha. now those range, you can see them getting a little bit stronger on saturday, across western areas of yemen, and they do roll across into the horn of africa. the open rift valley, seeing some of the showers and storms be going to saturday. it's nigeria. that seems some of the really heavy rain. we could see flooding in the north west. we have seen flooding in the northeast, so we'll keep an eye as those rains are expected for rather heavily. and as we move down to southern africa has been rather cold. chilion wet across cape town, but that cold front is now pushing off to the east. it can be lots of sunshine coming through. and we are going to see the temperatures pick up over the weekend. the weather bag,

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nearly all patients being admitted to hospital for the virus. they are people who happen to be in denise is now the center of the latest wave of covered in se, asia. it's reported more than $1400.00 deaths and $35000.00 cases in 24 hours. and china is deployed as military to hand on province. central region struggling with it was flooding and recent history troops actually burst a nearby down to try to reduce the risk of more floods. at least 33 people have been killed. talk you the host city of analytic games like no other thing. it's highest number of infections in 6 months to more athletes that the limbic village of tested positive they are among 12 cases linked to the games which are announced on thursday. it brings the total to $87.00. and the threat of infections is not any problem. clouding is just 24 hours before the opening ceremony. the director of the whole spectacle was sacked after organizers were made aware of a holocaust joke he made during a comedy show back in 998. a composer also resigned earlier in the week because of

the start bullying. can you guys, you know, can thorough korea, she was a member of the opening ceremony production team had in the past, due in his own performance said like i said, walked a painful historic that as such, the talk, your 2020 organizing committee today has dismissed him progress, giga, we just a day before the opening ceremony, i apologize deeply to all the people involved in this event and also the japanese people. i would like to extend my sincere apology. of both correspondent andy richardson is in tokyo with more. we get towards the opening ceremony, even in the best of times, there is a degree of public reticence and concern about the games and how much they cost and will really be any meaningful legacy when these games finish. hey, we are on the eve of the opening ceremony and the show director has being fired and this just piles on top of the previous control receives we've had,

we mentioned the, the composer for the opening ceremony having to step down earlier in the week. let's not forget in february share maury, the president of the organizing committee. he has to step down after making sexist comments, or really it's been one problem after another. and hey, we have this balancing act where the government's the organizing committee, the international olympic committee are all hoping that once that ceremony gets under way public opinion starts to shift. and they've really got to balance the spectacle of a $100000000.00 show with the seriousness of the situation facing tokyo in japan in terms of covet 19 we're here in, in so carry that the heading co 19 levels i've not seen since january earlier. we spoke to andrew zimbalist, who is an economics professor at smith college. he explained just how important the games are for the international olympic committee to remain viable the aisle. she needs this money, then they need the money from television,

primarily. they also get corporate sponsorship money, they're top sponsorship program, and they take that money. some of that is yours for their own operating expenses, which are, are high and luxurious, but they need that money to, to help finance the international sport. federations were called i s, and also the nationalistic committees around the world. those, those committees are the guts of the international law movement. and then enable the ios see, to maintain its legitimacy and its position at the top of that movement. i think they're blinded by, by the money issue that blinded by the prestige and the public relations that they usually get positive or negative. but yet when, when the house the, the games. but when you think about what's, what's on either side of the ledger here on one side of the ledger is disappointing 11000 message if you cancel the games. and the other side of the ledger is the public health of 7000000000 people in the world. how,

how can you look at how can you look at that calculation and not say that, that this is a very problematic venture that they're going forward with starting tomorrow. a number of protest hands and one police officer been killed in demonstrations against water shortages. this is in iran, it happened in the oil rich province of quizzes done on the waters of the gulf and also bordering iraq. crowd vented their anger for the 7th day in a row has been violence reported at several rallies. according to local media, solidarity protests have been held and several other cities of the wrong stuff is it's worth drought in 50 years. what around president house on gra homie is responded to the unrest with a warning matter. don't know who this done rule. of course we must distinguish between the people of who is a stan and a group that sometimes chance incorrect slogans. a few 100 protesters are not the people as crew to stop. it's their natural right to talk is protest and even take to the streets within the framework of the law. meanwhile,

some people might use this opportunity and an evil person might join the protesters and use guns and shoot and kill one of our dear countrymen. some thoughts now from ali for talent, shot and affiliated scholar with the you, the free university of berlin, an author of the iran, 1400 brief weekly news that he told us, the unrest has been actually part of a wider crisis in iran. it's also not only water, it's an ecological crisis that is existing in iran for a few years now. and i've been trying to conceptualize the key challenges of the song republic as a triple crisis, one of them being illogical and the other to be so sick and all back and political . and indeed, we cannot separate the crisis from the socio economic or political vices and some problem where i have them to grow up as a little kid is a perfect example, because you will see the combination of all those prices there that are actually political protests. those challenges, fundamentals for iraq,

regardless if he hasn't face and we've seen the same spots and with this done also being decides the process again or the regime or the last few years during the day process in december 2017 and january 2018. but also more recently and november 2019 and that the states response is one of brutality. so there is a slogan quite wide spreading that we want water no bullet. but what we unfortunately see is that the authorities are merely relying. ready on the violent accounts of those demonstrations that are legitimate and they try to deliver to my them as president, ronnie in by a, by stating by claiming that those are anti revolution forces. whereas that, those are populations that have been living was a stand for, for many years,

for decades, if not tension. thousands of people of rallied in ethiopia as capital to show their support for federal troops fighting. and the northern region of to speak is called on the opens to be unified against rebels in today, accused them of using child soldiers. it comes as the conflict has winded, now to include fighters from the neighboring m, harder and far regions. katherine sawyer reports from out of santa this was very much a government writing, organized by the man in id saba. but thousands of people's hand up at moscow square, carrying placards that expressed their anger, a t guys, t p. i left leadership. and it's forces that many here referred to as june car and support of prime minister abbey army government at its federal army has often anymore on that for a long time, t p l. s. has brought division on the people to we have to begin to forget about them. forget about the past and be united behind a defense force. among us in the out is more on this government has

a lot of moral support. they need to take strong action against the june to that steals those who address the crowd hadn't this to say. and that dad about. 6 to be down of healing to national media, witness the june test using kevin for war. they witness this, but they're not reported. and that shows the interest shows who they are. above all, the intent is to support the june t as as a c p. 6 federal troops have withdrawn from t guy, but the soldiers, retrans troops and special forces from neighboring i'm horror. region have been accused by rights, groups of committing crimes against civilians, including killings and rape. those who came to this raleigh say they support the government in the ongoing conflicts. but the situation that is dire fighting is still going on in some parts, drawing in security forces from other reasons that we're not previously involved in the fighting. and the un and other agency saying that they're struggling to get to

the most vulnerable people in that there has been resent fighting between federal troops and regional forces from our amir, against the grand fight, as in areas bordering t gray and a far region, a world food program, a convoy was attacked on sunday on the only remaining ground humanitarian corridor entity guy. this is devastating to millions of people who desperately need help. shortage of fuel and cash as well as communications blackouts are significantly hindering the assumption of the humanitarian response and preventing scale up. and jose, and you and agencies are running out of cash and are unable to pay staff or suppliers unless fuel cash supplies and aid workers are able to enter t gray. in the coming days. some humanitarian programs will not be able to function on these are dangerous times in the field. and all fighting sites are trying to control the narrative. media access into t guy easily with head because of multiple national government and regional special

forces checkpoint along the road. and near space on the open for humanitarian flight catching, going, odyssey or odyssey, frances president has called an urgent national security meeting to discuss the pegasus spyware scandal. it follows reports that ammonia micron and several government ministers were targeted for phone hacking by an, an identified moroccan security service. the rocker is denied those reports. india is also denied. it is among be government clients of n s or the company behind the program. but a leak database 450000 numbers included hundreds belonging to it citizens the most prominent, the opposition politician role. gandhi, his mobile number was targeted during parliamentary elections in 2018 and 19 others include dozens of journalists. there's an election commission, official business men, diplomats even to ministers in the moti government, from a supreme court stuffer who had accused the chief justice of india of abuse was also targeted at justice is now

a member of parliament with the governing party elizabeth per on him as more from you, debbie, where the press club of india were journalists holding a protest following report to the funds of more than 300 indians, including journalists, what hex using the israeli made pegasus by where now the project, the director of the government. because pegasus is classified as a military grade cyber weapon, and it's found to say they only sell the technology to better government for the sole purpose of saving lives and preventing criminals and terror acts. but the list of people in india who follows allegedly hack include not just journalists, but major opposition figures a former election commissioner, a top political strategist, business people include ministers and the current government, including the information minister. now the founders of the and the news website wire are among the more than 40 indian journalists whose fund allegedly hacked was also one of the 17 media organizations around the world. we conducted the

investigation into how pegasus by way was being used in various countries. this is much one of the founders had to say either we do the privacy issues and the number, not the owner, that is one of the deal that, that there is no problem that they want to get to the bottom of it. now the government and that there is no evidence not support us, nothing allegations and that there are an attempt to undermine the monsoon session of india's parliament, which began on monday. but the country main opposition political policy of the congress and many others. calling for an independent investigation into the report, given just how serious allegations argentina is one of the top food produces in the world, particularly known for grains and for beef. but as a movement, trying to change how the country produces food and the model seems to be becoming

more popular every day. has the support from just outside. one of our access to land is a step towards dignity. for many people as his friends will be that he's a member of the union of land workers in origin. tina and organization created in 2010 in would situs that's now grown across the country. it has more than 16000 members working the land and producing america, logical vegetables, and also not only know that we used to rent land to work. we had a book then the idea was to get abandoned land held by the states get credit. so we can have a better and dignified life, produce healthier food without toxic chemicals. the organization is giving farmer families the confidence and power to control their own lives. and donya, sanchez has been living here for 3 years. she now owns one hector of land where she works and lives at the back. but we make enough to eat and grow vegetables once

again, so we can reinvest it on. this piece of land has changed the lives of many of them more than 50 families that have made their life here. the union of land workers negotiate with local authorities to get access to abandon farm land. then they give the land to unemployed workers and train them in the food production. families were given this piece of land to produce better levels, but now they're also trying to create in this place what they call a bio factory, to create natural fertilizers and we've penance to dr. insects the way here. for example, they tell us they created a natural fertilizer using bay, so that was grown here. france on being says they have skilled technicians that are helping them in production. not that emily, me not a lot black i flora. we don't want to eliminate the pounds diseases, we want to drive them away, pesticides kill everything, and that's what we don't want portfolio. and that a d a spreading,

though. now more than 7 agriculture colonies and the number continues to grow. again, tina is known for its vast agricultural production, but it's a model that excludes the countries for his families. and that's why projects like this one are valuable. because access to a small piece of land helps provide work and the comfort satisfaction and security of owning your own home theater will defeat it was friday. aah! hop on the hour here on out of the were these are the headlines. corona virus case numbers are searching across the united states. the 7 day average, we're more than 50 percent and just the past week, nearly all patients being admitted to hospital for the virus still haven't had their job. white house correspondent, kimberly how.